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The Historic Cypress Tree of Mangabad, Mehriz

Mohammadreza Mehrabani GolzarEhsan Shariatmadari

The historic cypress tree in Mangabad, Mehriz, Yazd Province is a unique heritage asset of the city and a central element in its cultural landscape. Unfortunately, new constructions have gradually replaced the historic areas surrounding this tree adversely affecting the cultural landscape of the city as a whole.This research tries to identify significant constituent elements of Mangabad Cultural Landscape at micro and macro levels as part of a restoration and revival urban strategy. It is recommended that all urban development efforts in the vicinity of the Historic Mehriz Cypress should be in concordance with the dominant cultural nature of its cultural landscape and correspond to the conservation requirements of its authentic heritage aspects.

Shah Goli and Lahijan Lakes:Use of Water in the Cold and Humid Regions of Iran

Paria MeshkabadiMahdi Hamzeh Nezhad

This paper aims at recognizing ways of dealing with different design aspects of water such as se-mantic, behavioral, physical, etc. through a comparative analysis of two cases: the Shah Goli Lake, Tabriz and Lahijan Lake, Mazandaran Province. It employs a comparative analytical method using data from available literature, as well as field studies and surveys. The research findings show that water has a different role in two cultural ecologies. In Shah Goli Lake in particular, water plays a conceptual role. Furthermore, it is hypothesized that water shortages in this area are a source of different attitudes among the people so that water receives more attraction and is associated with deeper intrinsic meanings.

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Urban Agriculture: Opportunities and Challenges

Ali SharghiJamaleddin Mahdinejhad

Marzie Molaei Maqsoudbeki

Cities of the pre-industrial periods were surrounded by gardens, pastures, farms and fields, which not only provided places for leisure and contributed to the ecological balance of the built environment, but also produced readily available agricultural products. Nevertheless, the current urban sprawl accompanied by the increase in industries and commercial land uses and constant decrease in ur-ban green spaces, as well as the increase in prices of agricultural products, justifies the promotion of urban agriculture. Despite some successful cases of farming in small cities, urban agriculture has generally not been successful in major cities. This research reviews underlying causes affecting the promotion of urban agriculture to recommend solutions based on wider community participation.

Siahroud Riverside, Qaemshahr: Narrative-driven and Participatory Approaches in Planning and

Design of Riverside Areas

Mohsen Rouhani QadikolaeiHadi Pendar

Despite their role as the main natural asset of the city and its natural environmental cathartic element, rivers today have been subject to serious neglect and sometimes have turned into a source of danger and environmental threat. The narrative-driven and partnership-based strategies are formulated as a solution to this problem. This research uses these approaches to reduce the negative impacts of the river and its positive aspects. It uses both quantitative methods and qualitative interviews to collect information and analyze their content. Furthermore, historical evolution, riverside potentials and ethnographic lived experiences were studied for the Siahroud Riverside, Qaemshahr. The riverside was studied within a range of neighboring villages, suburbs and within the city. The results of this research indicate that spatial planning strategies for Siahroud River and the sequence of activities defined for its banks correspond to residents’ memories, mentality and behavioral patterns.

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Environmental Response Criteria for Urban Landscape Design

Minoo GharehbaglouAhad Nezhad Ebrahimi

Maliheh Javidmehr

This study aims at identifying and assessing urban landscape design criteria within the framework of environmental response, as well as searching for responsive elements in the design of urban landscapes. Jamalzadeh Neighborhood Center, Tehran is chosen for the case study. The research method is based on content analysis of architecture and urban planning literature, as well as heu-ristic analysis of the urban landscape. Design goals and user needs are established by employing the environmental response approach. The field study uses common survey methodology, simple observation and conventional recording processes. The results are presented in main dimensional classifications of aesthetic, functional, environmental and sense of place.

The Experience of Fabric: Decoding Meaning in Historic Urban Fabric Landscapes

Saleheh BokharaeiMahmood Khalili

The historic fabric of Iranian cities conveys social and cultural values shaped over several ages. One of these values is the quality of life leading to citizen satisfaction. Having hands on experience on the impact of the built environment on their personal, social, cultural, religious, and comforting needs, citizens have attempted to enhance a unique set of properties for their built environmental that they can independently identify as their set of valued preferences. This study tries to explain satisfaction variables such as complexity, novelty, incongruity, ambiguity, astonishment, diversity and redundancy. It further tries to relate these variables to the physical properties as experienced in the urban fabric landscapes. Pattern resulting from this analysis may assist landscape architects in designing urban places in line with citizen preferences.

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Assessment Criteria for Urban Natural Landscape Features

Maryam Yousefi Najafabadi

Recognition, recovery and revitalization of the natural features in the urban setting and enhancing their social role, contributes to the desired ecological qualities of the urban environment, while responding to basic human needs and social values. This research adopts a problem-oriented approach to assess problems regarding natural places and their effect on quality of life in a part of Tehran metropolitan area. Findings of this study demonstrate different aspects of the problem including the natural and social identity of natural features. Based on these aspects, interpretable criteria are presented within the realm of landscape architecture. These could be used as a means to enhance the quality of the urban landscape. Finally, to assess the applicability of these criteria, they are examined in the case of one of the main natural features of Tehran, the Farahzad Gulley.

Integrity in Historic Urban Landscapes: The Case of Naein City

Behrang BahramiSalman Heidari

Mehdi Safi Hossein Hazrat

A historic city includes intangible cultural aspects of its citizens as part of its heritage. Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) is an innovative approach to conservation and management of heritage cities that appreciates the specific qualities and relations between culture, social aspects, built structures and nature. This approach emphasizes the well-being of communities, conservation of urban historic areas, enhanced socioeconomic diversity as well as residential functions. Rapid urbanization and urban development plans have challenged HUL qualities and its integrity in recent years. This research investigates historical, urban and natural structures and their interactions as the basis for analyzing the integrity of HUL in the case of Naein Historic City.

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Perception and Visual Contact in Historic Urban Landscapes

Mehri Motahari Rad

Perception, in particular through visual contact, is an important element in the entire environmental behavior. It is also the main instrument for collecting environmental information and perceiving a historic urban landscape, as well as its constituent components and overall qualities such as au-thenticity and integrity. This paper recounts the results of a descriptive analytic research on human perception of the environment, enumerating the conditions for a favorable perception of historic urban landscapes. In conclusion, it proposes a model in which effective components for perception of historic urban landscapes are integrated.

Historic Urban Landscape: Definition and Requirements

Zahra Farahani

Pursuant to the evolution of approaches to historic fabrics, UNESCO has adopted the Recommen-dation on the Historic Urban Landscape (2011) which defines the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) as an ‘urban area understood as the result of a historic layering of cultural and natural values and attributes’. This paper reviews the definition and principles laid down by this Recommendation to propose a model for conservation of HULs. To this end, the background information leading to the evolution in thought and formation of the HUL concept is reviewed. Then actual properties of a HUL is identified and enumerated. Finally, based on an analysis of these properties, a process is developed for appreciation and conservation of HULs.

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Highway and Expressway Landscape DesignRole of Edges and Visual Features

Seyed Hassan Taghvaei

Urban and interurban highways are key infrastructures in current national, regional and international commerce. Therefore, it is necessary to formulate highway landscape frameworks with due respect for environmental needs, ecological conditions, visual attractions, and particularly road edges. This paper presents research findings on highway landscape design and edge enhancement in highways and expressways in Iran. Based on highway landscape concepts and recent approaches to landscape design, it studied ecological/environmental attractions, outstanding patterns and highway edges. In addition to presenting some circulation corridor criteria, the research findings indicate the key role of vernacular landscape, natural and manmade visual features and emphasize the need for integrating new technological infrastructures to achieve efficiency, environmental sustainability and a culture of adapting highways to developing cities and villages in Iran.

Tehran-Dizin Road: Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment

Farzin FardaneshEhsan Karimi

This paper reports the results of a Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment study for Tehran-Dizin Road. This study has been conducted in two phases. In the first phase, based on a field visit and conventional sequencing methodologies, the whole road has been divided into six segments each with relatively identical landscape properties. One segment is presented here. In the second phase, twelve different intervention scenarios were simulated employing 3D computer graphics. The impacts of constructions, traffic, reduction or addition of visual elements were then assessed in these twelve scenarios. The favorability of these interventions was finally measured through an initial test survey.

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